What is happening to Rugby and Australian Football TV coverage in the US?

westcoast9294 : Thanks much for bringing us the updates. I assume you're in the Perth/Fremantle area. Where are you getting these updates about the US from? Are they over the internet somewhere? It's OK if your sources are secret, and you don't want to divulge them.

Damn.

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to westcoast9294 again."

Hopefully someone else will give positive to rep to westcoast on my behalf.

 

I went to the AFL site, and there is a very simple solution for Australian Football coverage in the US.

https://telstra.com/subscriptions/afl/subscribe.asp

$59.95 to watch all matches, available for 1 full year. Yes, that is Australian dollars, so I think it's even cheaper than American dollars. This includes highlights of the weekly round, best goals, best marks.

None of the matches are live. But it's not like outside of the Grand Final we could watch any matches live anyway. We could listen to matches live for free. But if it's possible to watch them on a 24 hour delay, I could hold off from listening to the free audio. I think we'll have to live with this solution in the US.

Here are more details from that page:

- watch all 2005 AFL matches (available a minimum of 24 hours after the final siren)
- watch all 2003 and 2004 AFL matches
- watch classic matches from 1995 to 2002
- watch highlights, coach and player interviews, press conferences and more
- ability to build highlights video of players’ marks and goals
- listen to coach and player interviews, pre and post match press conferences, and more

 

I've done a bit of searching around on this ASTN. At this point it is a pie-in-the-sky. I don't see even 0.1% of American population having access to this channel any time soon. Their website is mostly fluff with no concrete info about anything.

It only makes sense for fans based in the US to shell out these odd $60 and get on with things. There is no sense in brooding over this issue now.

 

Yeah, right. Shoot the messanger.

Actually, I already brought the good news. For Aus$60, the entire season on your PC. This is an upgrade from AFL on Fox Sports World last year, except that the Grand Final may be delayed by 24 hours.

So, where is the rep then?

 

6 Nations is available on PPV on DirecTV in the US.

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/PopUpAction.do?tms_id=P123730_0001

 

I see that mentioned here:

http://afana.com/af_tvinfo.shtml

This is great news!

 

The correct link to start from is:

http://telstra.com/subscriptions/afl/